EPISODE 20: Deciphering Flynn's Occult Prayer with Special Guests Joe Szimhart and Sean Prophet.

Cult Intervention Specialists break down Mike Flynn’s occult prayer.

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Joseph Szimhart

Website: jszimhart.com

Twitter: @jszimhart

Joseph P. Szimhart has been a Cult Intervention Specialist since the early 1980s helping families and individuals through consultation and intervention. He has a degree in Arts and Sciences from the University of Dayton in Ohio, a Certificate in Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and completed a course in social psychology at Ursinus College, PA. He taught art courses at St. John’s College in New Mexico and at the New Mexico State Penitentiary.

Since 1998, he has been employed as a crisis caseworker at a psychiatric emergency hospital in Pennsylvania. The work of pioneer modern artists piqued his interest in the Theosophical Society and related new religious movements (NRMs) including the Agni Yoga Society and Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT). His radical experience with CUT from 1978 to 1980 drew him into cultic studies. He has presented papers many times at conferences regarding cults and NRMs, including twice with Association of Sociology of Religion and many times with International Cultic Studies Association.

As a media consultant, he provided the story for A Mother’s Deception starring Joan Van Ark (1994) and his intervention work was the subject of the feature article “New Age Exorcist” in DETAILs Magazine (Sept. 1991). The International Cultic Studies Association presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. He maintains an art studio at his home in Stowe, PA. His first novel Mushroom Satori: The Cult Diary was published through Aperture Press in 2013. His memoir, “Santa Fe, Bill Tate, and me: How an artist became a cult interventionist,” was released in 2020.

Sean Prophet:

Sean Prophet is a small business owner and writer based in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is the co-host of The Radical Secular podcast. He spent much of his career as a television editor and colorist in Los Angeles. He established the Black Sun Journal in 2001, where he chronicled his journey out of the religious cult his parents founded. He later hosted a weekly, live, call-in show on National Progressive Talk Radio. Sean attended Northwestern University, where he majored in electrical engineering and minored in political science. Sean’s interests include motorcycling, hiking, music, Star Trek, futurism, and evolutionary psychology.

Twitter:

@BlackSun_

@RadicalSecular

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